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Angela Messmer-Blust, PhD

Associate Professor, Sr. Scientific Advisor, & Co-Founder ScienceLIVE, RNA Therapeutics Institute

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Research Focus - Scientific Outreach & Communication

Dr. Angela Messmer-Blust’s academic service and educational activities focus on:

  • developing initiatives to empower early career researchers and highlight the diversity of scientists
  • encouraging students of all ages and backgrounds to pursue their scientific curiosities
  • establishing partnerships with industry to support these initiatives.

My primary goal is to provide training and educational opportunities to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to further their professional development. As an educator, I not only want to advance the communication, and inter-professional skills needed in research, but I want to spark the passion in our trainees to develop a spirit of community service and use their skills to increase scientific literacy in their communities.

Representative Publications

  • Kim E, Pickering MT, Messmer-Blust A. (2021). Emma RNA Saves the Day. RTI Children's Resources. https://doi.org/10.13028/0a6d-e575. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/rti_kids/4 Read Publication
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In the News

  • UMass Chan helps ‘Crack the Code’ at biotech career day in Worcester
    Oct 25, 2023

    UMass Chan helps ‘Crack the Code’ at biotech career day in Worcester

    Representatives from UMass Chan presented on several topics and career paths, including RNA Therapeutics Institute, ScienceLive, community and government relations, diversity and inclusion and media and arts in sciences.

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  • Worcester middle school teachers receive new microscopes to enhance classroom learning
    Nov 7, 2023

    Worcester middle school teachers receive new microscopes to enhance classroom learning

    UMass Chan Medical School hosted 23 science teachers from six Worcester middle schools to train them on the light microscopes recently donated to their classrooms by the Medical School, thanks to a grant from the Moderna Foundation.

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  • Worcester elementary students greeted with supply-filled backpacks from UMass Medical School
    Sep 1, 2021

    Worcester elementary students greeted with supply-filled backpacks from UMass Medical School

    Nearly 600 backpacks were distributed to students at Rice Square, Grafton Street and Union Square elementary schools thanks to the UMass Medical School North Quadrant Support Services partnership with the Worcester Public Schools.

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  • Emma RNA Saves the Day coloring book helps children understand how COVID-19 vaccines work
    Nov 24, 2021

    Emma RNA Saves the Day coloring book helps children understand how COVID-19 vaccines work

    A coloring book created by a team at UMass Chan Medical School is helping children learn about the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 and the RNA vaccines that protect against it.

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  • Interactive virtual ScienceLIVE program builds in Worcester schools
    Jul 22, 2021

    Interactive virtual ScienceLIVE program builds in Worcester schools

    An interactive online science program for middle school students developed and presented by UMass Medical School researchers will deepen its partnership with Worcester Public Schools this fall.

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  • Leader of ScienceLIVE program at UMass Chan recognized for advocacy work
    Sep 30, 2022

    Leader of ScienceLIVE program at UMass Chan recognized for advocacy work

    Angela Messmer-Blust, PhD, was selected as the inaugural winner of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society’s Science Outreach Award.

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  • UMass Chan, Moderna partner to provide microscopes to Worcester middle schools
    Jun 12, 2023

    UMass Chan, Moderna partner to provide microscopes to Worcester middle schools

    Dozens of new microscopes will be delivered to six Worcester middle schools thanks to a partnership between UMass Chan Medical School and Moderna.

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  • ScienceLIVE brings virtual labs to area middle school students
    Nov 3, 2020

    ScienceLIVE brings virtual labs to area middle school students

    UMass Medical School’s RNA Therapeutics Institute and Sanderson Center for Optical Experimentation have partnered with Technocopia Inc., a nonprofit community makerspace in downtown Worcester, to develop ScienceLIVE, a virtual outreach program to deliver science to middle school students during the pandemic.

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  • Remillard Family Community Service Fund awards nine grants for UMass Chan collaborations
    Oct 7, 2021

    Remillard Family Community Service Fund awards nine grants for UMass Chan collaborations

    Funded projects led by faculty, students, staff and community partners have the potential to improve the health of Central Massachusetts residents, particularly those who are economically or educationally disadvantaged or underrepresented.

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  • UMass Chan partners with Worcester to outfit elementary students with backpacks and school supplies
    Aug 30, 2022

    UMass Chan partners with Worcester to outfit elementary students with backpacks and school supplies

    Nearly 600 students in Worcester received backpacks filled with school supplies this week, thanks to the UMass Chan Medical School community.

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